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4 unusual facts about Dragonfly


American Kestrel

American Kestrels feed largely on small animals such as grasshoppers, dragonflies, lizards, mice, and voles.

Eckbachweiher

The Eckbachweiher is known to biologists as a Rückzugsgebiet for native dragonflys and also offers a habitat for endangered species, like the Hairy Dragonfly (Brachytron pratense).

Papa John Creach

Although regarded as a session musician, he would remain with the band for the next four years, before leaving in 1974 to join Jefferson Starship and record on their first album, Dragonfly.

Yokosuka K5Y

Due to its bright orange paint scheme (applied to all Japanese military trainers for visibility), it earned the nickname "aka-tombo", or "red dragonfly", after a type of insect common throughout Japan.


A. palustris

Aethiothemis palustris, a species of dragonfly in family Libellulidae.

A. sieboldii

Anotogaster sieboldii, the oniyanma, the largest dragonfly species native to Japan

Acanthaeschna victoria

Acanthaeschna victoria, the Thylacine Darner, is a species of dragonfly in family Aeshnidae.

Alfred Gabriel Nathorst

A number of plant, animal and fungal species have been named to his honour, e.g. Saxifraga nathorstii (Dusén) Hayek (East Greenland saxifrage) and a suite of fossil plant species, Williamsonia nathorstii Carruthers (a fossil dragonfly) and Laestadites nathorstii Mesch. (a fossil fungus).

Austrocordulia leonardi

Austrocordulia leonardi is a species of dragonfly in family Corduliidae.

Blagdon Lake

The Ruddy Darter dragonfly (Sympetrum sanguineum) can also be seen.

Blue-eyed Darner

The Blue-eyed Darner is a common dragonfly of the western United States commonly sighted in the sagebrush steppe of the Snake River Plain, occurring east to the Midwest from central Canada and the Dakotas south to west Texas and Oklahoma.

Brand blunder

An April 2002 Starbucks ad featured twin cups of their Tazo drinks with the caption "Collapse into cool" and an airborne dragonfly, imagery and wording which reminded many of the recent 9/11 attacks.

Common Clubtail

Gomphus vulgatissimus, a dragonfly found in streaming rivers and creeks in Europe

Crato Formation

Fossil Odonata (dragonflies) and damselflies are especially rich in the Crato lagerstätte: currently 384 specimens have been recovered, 264 adults and 120 larvae.

Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy

Prof. Bullfinch is able to use this altered material to create ISIT (the Invisibility Simulator with Intromittent Transmission), a dragonfly-like probe which could be piloted with a Telepresence helmet and gauntlet gloves.

David Seltzer

Seltzer's writing credits include the screenplays for The Omen, Prophecy, Six Weeks, My Giant, Dragonfly and Bird on a Wire, starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn.

Dersingham Bog

The Mire also has some rare insects such as the Black Darter Dragonfly (Sympetrum danae) and moths such as the Light Knot Grass (Acronicta menyanthidis).

Dragonfly Therapeutic Retreat

Dragonfly has combined company owned operations with franchised operations - for its shops in China, and operated franchised shops in Oslo, Norway (2006) and Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2008).

Glueleg

And with Pistons, and Dragonfly off their third Sylvia Massy produced album, Clodhopper.

Godrevy Head to St Agnes

The site contains 25 species of butterfly and 15 dragonfly and damselfly species, which include the nationally scarce varieties of silver-studded blue (Plebejus argus) and blue-tailed damselfly (Ischnura pumilio).

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus

Minoru Watanabe as Megaguirus, the main villain and a giant, prehistoric dragonfly who reguires Godzilla's energy to survive

Graeophonus

A single fossil from the Cape Breton, Nova Scotia area was interpreted as a fossil dragonfly larvae and described by Samuel Hubbard Scudder in 1876 as Libellula carbonaria.

Karoo Ice Age

Higher oxygen concentration (and accompanying higher atmospheric pressure) enabled energetic metabolic processes which encouraged evolution of large land-dwelling vertebrates and flight, with the dragonfly-like Meganeura, an aerial predator, with a wingspan of 60 to 75 cm.

L. tricolor

Lyriothemis tricolor, a dragonfly species found in Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Myanmar and Taiwan

Leila Abashidze

Leila Abashidze made her screen debut as a child alongside legendary Nato Vachnadze in Kajana (1941), but it was the hit romantic comedy called The Dragonfly (1954) which made her very popular throughout the Soviet Union and Europe.

Miles M.35 Libellula

The Miles M.35 or Miles Libellula (from Libellulidae, the taxonomic name for a family of dragonflies) was a tandem wing research aircraft built by Miles Aircraft as a precursor to a proposed naval carrier fighter.

Miles M.39B Libellula

The M.39B Libellula (from Libellulidae, a taxonomic family of dragonflies) was a Second World War tandem wing experimental aircraft built by Miles Aircraft; a scale version of the M.39 design proposed by Miles to meet Air Ministry specification B.11/41 for a fast bomber.

Opera Dragonfly

Opera Dragonfly is compatible with Presto 2.1 and later, specifically Opera Mobile 9.5 and above, Opera Desktop 9.5 and above, and Nintendo DS & Nintendo DSi Browser.

P. magnus

Paragomphus magnus, a dragonfly species found in Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe

Petrolacosaurus

It was portrayed as living alongside several species of giant arthropods, like giant mesothelae spiders, and Meganeura, a giant dragonfly, as well as anthracosaur amphibians like Proterogyrinus.

Pow Burn

Plants and animals been sighted at the Pow include sea otters, red admiral, rare dragonflys and songbirds such as thrush and nightingale.

Rustle the Leaf

Also in the cast were 6 other characters: "Dandy" (a persecuted, paranoid Dandelion seed), "Fuego" (a firefly), "Paige" (a water drop), "Dizzy" (a helicoptering Silver Maple seed), "Professor Oakmont" (a sagacious Oak tree), and "Amelia" (an adventurous dragonfly).

Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve

The Gravel Pits' SSSI notification also notes the growing botanical and entomological interest of the site, with thirteen species of Odonata (dragonflies) including the locally-distributed downy-emerald dragonfly Cordulia aenea.

Steve Mazur

Before joining Our Lady Peace, he was in many different bands including Dragonfly (with Jeff Gutt on vocals), Butter Jackson, Ph (pronounced F), and Gabriel Mann's band.

Ventongimps Moor

The nationally rare Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly (Ischnura pumilio) is one of the 13 species of dragonfly and damselfly that the ponds on the moor supports.

Westland Dragonfly

The Westland WS-51 Dragonfly helicopter was built by Westland Aircraft and was a license-built version of the American Sikorsky S-51.


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